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Monday, February 7, 2011

Light Snow

Light Snow, 6 x 8 in.sold

Last Friday, Austin received a whopping inch (yes, one) of snow--and school was cancelled (mostly due to the ice that was so nicely hidden beneath the snow). We get so few "snow days" here that we were all pretty excited.

Around noon when the roads became passable, I headed out to Hunt to meet some college girlfriends as planned (we were not about to let a little snow cancel our plans!) Just outside of Austin, I had to stop and take some photos--and make a mental picture of it all. It really was beautiful, and an entirely new way of seeing the countryside with which I'm growing so familiar. I must say, I had a blast painting this, and knocked out a larger version today. Here's to more snow days!

16 comments:

So pretty! Love thos shadows in the snow. We got a few more inches here in Memphis today but this is kind of getting old for us now. We have had more snow "events" this year than any year I can remember. And we are supposed to get more this Wednesday! I did get out on one of them and get some great photos though. Hard to resist when you are an artist right?

Ha..we just got 5 inches this afternoon with 50+ mph winds. Of course I live at almost 5000 ft. and the ski resorts got 2 feet on top of several other feet of snow. We actually don't mind too much as it is a good snow pack for our water year. We had over 7 yrs. of drought in the 1990's so we appreciate the snow! That is in Utah. Beautiful painting. Snow paintings can be tricky!